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On the occasion of the Europen Year of Inter-cultural Dialogue, a specal thematic week was held on the radio, comprising interesting interviews with experts on the Middle East and on Islamic culture....

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"I appreciate any organization or individual people who sincerely make an effort to promote harmony between humanity, and particularly harmony between the various religions. I consider it very sacred work and very important work"

The week of interfaith dialogue on Radio Tilos was held on the occasion of the Europen Year of Inter-cultural Dialogue, between the 19th and the 23rd of may 2008.

This project was the second component of the Euromedina action (the first component being the EuroMed Party) - one of the 1001 Actions For Dialogue in the Euro Med area.

This action was part of a larger endavour, titled "One World Project", comprising a series of thematic weeks on Radio Tilos, which ran from the beginning of 2008 to celebrate the European Year of Intercultural Dialogue. The thematic weeks preceeding the Euromedina project were held on: Indiginous and ancient cultures, Middle East and Islamic culture, and a thematic week on Africa.

Regretably, the Interfaith Dialogue Week was not as successful as the previous thematic weeks (where we had 20 special thematic programs on average per week). Thus, out of 23 subjects and 24 experts suggested by the One World Project, the following programs were broadcasted live on Radio Tilos during the Week of Interfaith Dialogue.

1. What is religion? Who is religious? What are the forms of religious existance? On religious cultures and their role in modern day life style.

(Guest: Attila Marton Farkas, professor of Buddhist studies, ELTE University. Time and date of program: may 20, Tuesday, from 16.00 to 17.30)

Interfaith Roundtable Discussion

The third component of the Euromedina project was the the interfaith round table discusion, which took place on the day after Dialogue Night (23rd of may 2008, from 16.00-18.30).

The discussion focused on one central issue:

What is common between the various faiths represented in the Roundtable discussion.

"We may have different religions, different languages, different colored skin, but we all belong to one human race." -- Kofi Annan

The following persons participated in the Interfaith Roundtable Discussion:

1. Attila Karaszon (Muslim Faith, member of the Dar Al Salam Hungarian Muslim Community and delegated by the head of the community, who could not participate due to being outside of Hungary on the date of the Roundtable)

A full transcript of this discussion is available in Hungarian.

About Radio Tilos / Tilos Cultural Foundation

Tilos Cultural Foundation is the operator of Radio Tilos, the first not for profit community radio station in Hungary.

The Foundation was established in 1991, and it has a board of trustees elected by the members of the radio.Members include about 250 Dj's, reporters, journalists, artists, NGO's, etc. The radio broadcasts on FM 90, but also via streaming or archive on the internet.

Variety, multiculturalism, critique, social commitment and independence are all our slogans.

Tilos Radio is the best-known Hungarian community radio station. Its structure, operation, programming structure, financial model, basic principles and values are unique in Hungary and it plays a key role at the time of Hungary’s EU entry in propagating and popularizing the notion of open society as well as in its everyday practice.

The EuroMed Party was held on the occasion of the Europen Year of Inter-cultural Dialogue, and is one of the 1001 Actions for Dialogue in the EuroMed area.This event was the 8th event of the World Party Series, which started in 2007 and included among others the 2 Africa parties, the Middle East party, the Australia patry, the Caribbean party, India Party, and a special world music concert as a tribute to Tibet).

The event featured the following items on two seperate stages:

1. Concerts:

Las Mujeres, a group composed of two guitarists and a rythem musician playing Flamenco in Spanish. One of the musicians is an Israeli citizen (Ilan Shapir), the other is a Moroccan (Said Tichti), while the singer is Hungarian (Zoltan Pinter).

2. Khalifa group and friends: This performance was the longest, lasting almost one and half hours. First, the group played authentic Greek dance music, while two dancers dressed in authentic Greek cloths made a dance performance (Dancers: Filipas Papvasiliou and Diana Kecskes). Then the group played authentic Arab music, while a Hungarian belly dancer made an authentic show (Dancer: Mercedes Nieto). Thereafter the gruop switched to palying some Flamenco music, while a Flamenco dancer made a short dance performance (Dancer: Veronika Vamos). The group then went on to the fusion bit of the concert, where they played EuroMed music, while the dancers were together on stage. The group itself featured 9 Hungarian and Arab musicians, plus the 4 dancers.

The third and last concert was performed by Hungarian group Tundergrouond, which is actually coming from Romania. The group played modern trance music inspired by the euro med heritatage, such as oriental and Balcanic music, and also some elements of Hungarian folk music. The group featured 7 musicians.

D. Visuals:

The visual experiance meant two seperate paralell screenings (one on four huge screens, and the other on two huge screens) of images and remixed video shots from the Euro Med region.

E. Other Attractions at the Event:

The event also featured a specially decorated area, resembling a Middle Eastern watarpipe caffe. Visitors could smoke the waterpipe, or have a bite from the Middle Eastern sweets provided for free by the Al Sultan Syrian waterpipe center. All personnel working in this area also had special Middle Eastern folkloric cloths.

Additionally, another special area featured Henna painting artist Vera Papp, who made Henna drawings on the hands of those visitors who were interested in trying it out.

The The EuroMed Party lasted from 7 pm in the evening until 5 am the next morning, and it was also boradcasted live via the internet on the homepage of Onevisione Tv.

{page}Tilos Cultural Foundation is the operator of Radio Tilos, the first not for profit community radio station in Hungary.

The Foundation was established in 1991, and it has a board of trustees elected by the members of the radio.Members include about 250 Dj's, reporters, journalists, artists, NGO's, etc. The radio broadcasts on FM 90, but also via streaming or archive on the internet.

Variety, multiculturalism, critique, social commitment and independence are all our slogans.

Tilos Radio is the best-known Hungarian community radio station. Its structure, operation, programming structure, financial model, basic principles and values are unique in Hungary and it plays a key role at the time of Hungary’s EU entry in propagating and popularizing the notion of open society as well as in its everyday practice.

On the occasion of the Europen Year of Inter-cultural Dialogue, this is yet another event in the framework of the World Party Series organized by Radio Tilos and the One World Project: This time the invitation is for an exciting audiovisual journey into Africa, from Casablanca to the Cape of Good Hope.

The party was held on the 19th of april 2008 from 20 o’clock Gödör Club, Budapest V. ker. Erzsébet tér

Party program:

8 pm – Party Opening by Dr. Balogh Sándor, head of African-Hungarian Union

On the occasion of the Europen Year of Inter-cultural Dialogue, this is yet another event in the framework of "One World Project" .

The follwoing pages contain the subjects of this special thematic week.

"Our use of phrase 'The Dark ages' to cover the period from 699 to 1,000 marks our undue concentration on Western Europe...". Bertrand Russel in ‘History of Western Philosophy,’ London, 1948, p. 419.

1. Religion

a. Discussion with Professor Miklos Maroth (Avicenna Institute) about the concept of the state in Islamic law, and about the values that Islam could contribute to the current world system in light of the achievements of the Islamic civilization.

b. Discussion with Professor Laszlo Tuske (Avicenna Institute) about the fundamentals of the Islamic faith.

c. Discussion with Imam Dr. Saleh Tayseer about the philosophy of Islam in general and Islamic fundamentalism in particular.

d. Discussion with Professor Zoltán Szombathy about the Sufi movement in Islam.

e. Discussion with Professor Balázs Sudár about the Ottoman Empire and its heritage.

2. Culture

a. Interview with Palestinian painter Abed Abdi about his artistic work and about Palestinian art generally.

b. Interview with Teréz Vincze about the modern Iranian film.

c. Interview with Said Tichti about the music of Chalaban and about North African Arab music in general.

d. One Thousand Nights, musical remix and reading of stories in Hungarian.

e. Music shows, presenting classical and modern Arab, Turkish and Persian music throughout the week.

f. Special musical show: Islamic music in India.

3. Society

a. Discussion with Szentágotay Rita Yusra about women in Islam.

b. Interview with Gabor Eisa, a young Hungarian who just returned from the Hajj pilgrimage.

c. Discussion with Miklós Sárközi about Persian culture and life in modern day Iran.

d. Interview with Mrs. Hend Damergi About the role of women in Tunisia since 1986.

e. Interview with the head of the Kurdish Information Office in Hungary about the Kurdish problem.

f. Interview with László Csicsman from Corvinus University about the Middle East today.

g. Interview with Eszter Cseke on her travels in the Middle East.

h. Interview with Mátyás Benyik, head of ATTACK, about his residence in Damascus and Istanbul

4. Politics

a. Discussion with Professor N. Erzsebet Rozsa (Hungarian Institute of International Affairs) about the current situation in the Middle East: Palestine, Iraq, Lebanon, Syria and Iran.

b. Discussion with film critiques about the appearance of the Iraqi war in the media and on the widescreen.

c. Interview with representative of the ministry of foreign affairs about the relations of Hungary with the Middle East, and about the Turkish issue from the European perspective.

5. Economics

a. Discussion with an expert on the Peak Oil problem.

For complete and up to date schedule of the thematic week, please see: http://www.interkulti.eu/radio All programs will be archived at that location immediately after the shows go on air. The archives can be accessed any time. The website will also contain a host of links to studies and articles related to the subject.

Tilos Cultural Foundation is the operator of Radio Tilos, the first not for profit community radio station in Hungary.

The Foundation was established in 1991, and it has a board of trustees elected by the members of the radio.Members include about 250 Dj's, reporters, journalists, artists, NGO's, etc. The radio broadcasts on FM 90, but also via streaming or archive on the internet.

Variety, multiculturalism, critique, social commitment and independence are all our slogans.

Tilos Radio is the best-known Hungarian community radio station. Its structure, operation, programming structure, financial model, basic principles and values are unique in Hungary and it plays a key role at the time of Hungary’s EU entry in propagating and popularizing the notion of open society as well as in its everyday practice.

حفلة الشرق الاوسط Middle East Party

This event was part of the official program of 2008 – the European Year of Intercultural Dialogue in the Republic of Hungary.

14 march 2008 from 7 pm. / Budapest Gödör Club (Erzsébet Tér)

An exciting audiovisual journey into the Middle East, all the way from Morocco to the Persian Gulf.

This is the 2nd event in the framework of the World Party Series organized by Radio Tilos and the One World Project. The Party featured 3 live concerts of groups blending authentic Middle Eastern dance music and modern ethno jazz fusion (Khalifa, Chalaban).

Tilos Cultural Foundation is the operator of Radio Tilos, the first not for profit community radio station in Hungary.

The Foundation was established in 1991, and it has a board of trustees elected by the members of the radio.Members include about 250 Dj's, reporters, journalists, artists, NGO's, etc. The radio broadcasts on FM 90, but also via streaming or archive on the internet.

Variety, multiculturalism, critique, social commitment and independence are all our slogans.

Tilos Radio is the best-known Hungarian community radio station. Its structure, operation, programming structure, financial model, basic principles and values are unique in Hungary and it plays a key role at the time of Hungary’s EU entry in propagating and popularizing the notion of open society as well as in its everyday practice.

ABORIGINAL PARTY - An audiovisual journey to Aboriginal Australia

On the occasion of the Europen Year of Inter-cultural Dialogue, this is yet another event in the framework of the World Party Series.

For the sake of presenting the varoius cultures of the world to the Hungarian public, Radio Tilos has initiated the „One World Project” – a year long series of events meant to celebrate world cultures.

These events are now part of the official program of the 2008 European Year of Dialogue Between Cultures, taking place throughout the EU and in Hungary as well.

The first event in the World Party Series in the year 2008 will take the public to a unique audiovisualo journey to Aboriginal Australia – land of the red earth. The colorful programs will definnitly affect all of your senses with the feeling of Australia.

The party begins with reading out of dreamtime stories by Velvet (Csipetke, Radio Tilos), with calm intro music in the background. Film

Screening: "Terra Australis"

Then comes the didgeridoo – the ancinet musical instrument of the aboriginals - which will be played by the authenthic sound of Australia – the Avaron group,

Following the concerts, dj Ludmilla will induce all to dance with her exclusive Australian breakbeat mixes,which will be followed by the tribal-breakbeat-trance-fusion mixes of AdamSalman, Zsaresz and Toma.

Study Time stand Australia’s Faces – Joint stand of the Australian Embassy and Austrade

Preceeding the party, a special thematic week will take place on Radio Tilos (FM 90.3, www.tilos.hu / live net streaming) from the 26th of january 2008 until the day of the party / 1st of february 2008.

The thematic week will host discussions with experts on ancient cultures, including the cultures of China, Egypt, Indians, Aboriginals, etc and will feature tribal fusion musical mixes all week long! Archives of these programs will be available at http://interkulti.net/radio. The round table discussions will touch upon various aspects of ancient cultures, and will attempt to introduce those elements of these cultures, which could also serve as useful knowledge today, thereby bridging a potential synthesis between what is old and what is new.

Creative director & Head of Project: dr. Amir A. Abdi

Media & Marketing: Toma Maróthy

Program Artistic director: Gábor Zsarnai

This project was sponsored by the European Union and the Hungarian Ministry of Education & Culturein co-operation with the Australian Embassy and Austrade, Budapest

Published by Interkulti Association for the Promotion of Inter-Cultural Dialogue 2008